detestation

[ dee-te-stey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. abhorrence; hatred.

  2. a person or thing detested.

Origin of detestation

1
1375–1425; late Middle English (<Middle French ) <Latin dētestātiōn- (stem of dētestātiō), equivalent to dētestāt(us) (past participle of dētestārī to detest; see -ate1) + -iōn--ion

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How to use detestation in a sentence

  • Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

  • As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren.

  • Into that game Michael poured all he felt of savage detestation for everything that the Modern side stood for.

    Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
  • He therefore urged the Achaeans not only to decline the offer, but to hold Eumenes in detestation for thinking of making it.

  • But you are exhausted; and notwithstanding my detestation of that infernal tyrant, your master, I am a humane man.

    Wandering Heath | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • She and Lady Ralegh had 'an ancient acquaintance,' which had resulted in mutual detestation.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing

British Dictionary definitions for detestation

detestation

/ (ˌdiːtɛsˈteɪʃən) /


noun
  1. intense hatred; abhorrence

  2. a person or thing that is detested

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